‘Fat, Dumb and Happy’ at the UAW

An indictment details a multimillion-dollar corruption scheme.

In December 2014, United Automobile Workers vice president General Holiefield accidentally fired the gun he was cleaning on his kitchen table, hitting his wife, Monica Morgan, in the abdomen. If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear about the gut-shot the couple allegedly dealt to Holiefield’s union members.

An indictment unsealed last week claims the labor chief, who died of cancer in 2015, secretly teamed up with his bargaining-table opponent at Fiat Chrysler, Alphons Iacobelli. The feds say they and other conspirators...

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